The nice thing is I have a clean BIOS and I've found the site that offers the BIOS and cables. I know for sure the BIOS is still available. I've tried some of the tricks found from various places with a regular keyboard and the iOpener keyboard.
This weeks meeting is at Mr O's house again so I'll be there. That be all, Mr O. FWIW, y'all are welcome to bring whatever you like to drink and eat. --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr O, > > Depending on the version of the device. You can flash the > BIOS or > even replace the BIOS if you can get all the glue / sticky > crap off > the board. The way I did this was by using a normal keyboard. > You > have to hold down esc shit alt or alt esc or was it esc > delete. I > can't remember right this second. Then when I got into the > bios I was > able to boot off the dd image I made to the laptop hard drive > I > installed. I did buy a custom IDE cable that was wired for > the > correct ports. It was a fun little project and I even took > the device > to three or more conferences. I used it for a machine that I > could > hook up to a non-trusted network and be able to sniff track > all of the > nasty crap going over the network. The other plus is I could > reformat > the machine and not worry about the information on it. Bring > to > Euglug and I can go over it with you. I can't find my power > supply > right now for mine. I also need to reinstall the OS on the > hard drive > for it. I need to stick Linux back on the machine or BeOS or > something else. > > -Miller > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
